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    Politics Nigerian Agency Presents 2015 Budget To Reps For 2016

    The House of Representatives’ Committee on Capital Market, led by Tajudeen Yusuf, was shocked to discover that the Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) presented same copy of its 2015 budget in 2016. According to TheNation, this discovery put on hold the budget defence session of the...
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    Politics Nigeria's 2016 Budget: Lai Mohammed Disowns Ministry’s N398m Votes For Computers

    Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed yesterday openly disowned the N398 million being part of the budget estimates by his ministry meant for the purchase of computers, saying the figure was strange to him. Reacting to questions during budget session before the Senate...
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    Politics Nigeria: Ex-Military President, Babangida Criticizes Buhari's 2016 Budget

    Former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, joined thousands of Nigerians to criticized the proposed 2016 budget that was presented to the National Assembly last December by President Muhammadu Buhari. The former president in his reaction to the ongoing criticism trailing the alleged payment of...
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    Politics Ayodele Fayose: [LIST] 3 Reasons Why President Buhari Should Withdraw 2016 Budget

    Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to withdraw and represent the 2016 appropriation bill to the National Assembly, describing revelations that the document had been doctored as a national embarrassment. Here are few reasons why President...
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    Politics 2016 Budget Well Structured – Ministry official

    The Ministry of Budget and Planning says that the 2016 Budget proposals submitted to the National Assembly (NASS) by President Muhammadu Buhari, were very well structured and targeted at reviving the economy, notwithstanding the fall in the oil price. The ministry was reacting to different...
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    Politics Nigerian Senate Rejects N130 Daily Feeding for Prison Inmates

    The Senate committee on Interior, today, rejected the sum of N130 budgeted for the feeding of each of the inmates in prisons across the country. The revelation was made when Minister of Interior, Retired General Abdulrahaman Dambazzau appeared before members of the Senate Committee on Interior...
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    Politics #BudgetOfCorruption: Nigerians React to President Buhari's 2016 Budget

    On Tuesday December 22, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari walked into a joint session of the National Assembly and presented the first annual budget proposal of his administration, ambitiously tagged: “The Budget of Change”. After highlighting the economic challenges that confronted the country...
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    Metro Nigeria's 2016 Budget: Permanent Secretaries, Directors In Trouble Over Manipulation

    Some directors and permanent secretaries in many ministries, departments and agencies of government are currently panicking over revelations by the Presidency that bogus figures were injected into the 2016 budget. PUNCH gathered on Monday that many of the top government officials, who had been...
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    Politics Civil Service Mafia Responsible For Allocation Controversies - Presidency

    Various criticisms that have greeted the proposed 2016 budget have been a serious embarrassment to President Mohammadu Buhari and as he has vowed to deal with top civil servants responsible for smuggling frivolous allocations into the budget, a senior administration official within the...
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    Politics Buhari Orders 2016 Proposed Budget to be Uploaded Online

    President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate online publishing of the proposed 2016 budget in order to welcome well-meaning criticism of its policies, its budget and expenditure from Nigerians. Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who stated this in a statement...
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    Business 2016 Budget: How we want to Borrow Money for Nigeria- Finance Minister Adeosun

    According to Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun, FG wants to tap financing at "concessionary rates" as low as 1.5 percent from international agencies to fund infrastructure projects before returning to the eurobond market. Nigeria has held exploratory talks with the World Bank and looked at...
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    Politics Nigeria's 2016 Budget: Things You Need to Know – Kolawole Omole [Opinion]

    The proposed 2016 budget currently being subjected to legislative scrutiny by both chambers of the National Assembly is the first budget to be so put together by the APC led administration. The appropriation bill is coming on the heels of global economic downturn which has significantly impacted...
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    Metro 2016 Budget: Senate Frowns At Standards Organisation of Nigeria's N83m for Refreshment

    The Senate on Wednesday frowned at the N83 million allocated to meals and refreshment by the Standards Organization of Nigeria in the 2016 Budget proposal of the agency, Dailypost reports‎. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Trade and Investment, Senator Sam Egwu, said such amount was...
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    Politics Senate Uncovers N10Bn Excess in 2016 Education Budget

    THE Senate Committee on Education, yesterday, uncovered N9,982,258,479 hidden in the budget of parastatals by the Federal Ministry of Education. The committee, which discovered the amount at the commencement of its 2016 budget defence, said the amount was hidden in the ministry’s parastatals...
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    Business Nigeria Seeks $3.5bn Emergency Loans From World Bank, AfDB to Fund 2016 Budget

    Nigeria has asked the World Bank and African Development Bank for $3.5 billion in emergency loans to fill a growing gap in the 2016 budget, FT reports. The budget, which is currently at the national assembly, was predicated on $38 per barrel of crude oil, but prices have already fallen to $30...
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    Politics 2016 Budget: Buhari Replies Remi Tinubu on Economic Rights for Women

    President Muhammadu Buhari has replied Oluremi Tinubu wife of the APC leadersm Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who challenged the administration on the 2016 budget allocation for Ministry of Women affairs said that his administration will continue to guarantee the economic rights of women in the country...
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    Politics Ben Bruce Advises President Buhari On 2016 Budget

    Senator representing Bayelsa East constituency in the National Assembly, Ben Murray-Bruce, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari on the 2016 proposed budget. Bruce gave his advise on the 2016 budget during the budget debate at the floor of the national assembly. He said: “We should spend as...
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    Politics Why 2016 Budget Is For 'Talakawas' and the 'Mekunus' – Dino Melaye

    All Progressives Congress (APC) senator representing Kogi west, Dino Melaye, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 budget as holy. He said this on Thursday while making his contribution to debate on the 2016 appropriation bill on the floor of the senate, Melaye said he was once blind...
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    Metro 2016 Budget is a Fraud - Senator Nwaoboshi

    The Senator representing Delta North senatorial district, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has described the 2016 budget presented by President Mohammadu Buhari as a fraud. Nwaoboshi, during the budget debate session at the National Assembly, today, raises concerns on the breakdown of about 300Billion...
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    Politics Senate Begins Debate on 2016 Budget

    The Senate has began debate on 2016 Appropriation Bill revised and re-submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari. Senate president, Bukola Saraki announced the debate of the second reading of the 2016 Appropriation Bill today. See Tweets:
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